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ISBN:	1439110077 (ISBN13: 9781439110072)
Edition Language:	English

Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story

Isabel Gillies

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.48 | 4158 Users | 788 Reviews

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Title	:	Happens Every Day: An All Too True Story
Author	:	Isabel Gillies
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	March 24th 2009 by Scribner / S2e Book Publishing Co. (first published March 2nd 2009)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir. Marriage. Family Law. Divorce. Family

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Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah, announced that he was leaving her and their two young sons.

When Josiah took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio, where Isabel taught acting, threw herself into the college community, and delighted in the less-scheduled lives of toddlers raised away from the city. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled. "Happens every day," said a friend.

Far from a self-pitying diatribe, Happens Every Day reads like an intimate conversation between friends. Gillies has written a dizzyingly candid, compulsively readable, ultimately redemptive story about love, marriage, family, heartbreak, and the unexpected turns of a life. On the one hand, reading this book is like watching a train wreck. On the other hand, as Gillies herself says, it is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away. Hers is a remarkable new voice -- instinctive, funny, and irresistible.

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Gillies seems like a sweetheart. She can't write worth a damn, and this book reads like a series of hastily tossed off emails, but that's part of its charm. You feel you're eavesdropping on someone's unpolished, gossipy account of a run-of-the-mill divorce.

I'm starting to feel like the only guy on the planet who's read this book. I thought it was actually pretty good and hard to put down. A lot of people have said the writing is bad- and while it's not Edith Wharton or Henry James, I didn't find the writing bad-- just your average 'every day speak'. For workaday speech, it was fine, cliches and all. I think the point was that it's supposed to feel like someone talking to you, and it does. Additionally, lots of people seem to be dismissing this

This was a lot of unrealized potential. Wrapped in Lulu DK fabric and William Morris wallpaper.

God, what an elitist brat! I could not stand her! I live two doors down from "bricky", so I was very excited to read this book bc it is fun to read about the place where you are. I added 1 star purely bc I enjoyed knowing all the little shops and restaurants and buildings she wrote about. She was so disrespectful to the town of Oberlin. It was a classic case of a city snob looking down on the town. I am also from a city and live in this small town, so I am not exempt from being a fucker, but she

I read this book and only one word can describe this book: OUCH. The author Isabel Gillies describes in brutally honest detail the demise of her marriage to a college professor. She appeared to have the perfect life: handsome, brilliant husband, two beautiful boys, a beautiful old house and the good life in a small college town. Into the picture comes a new female professor in her husband's department whom Ms Gillies embraces as a new found friend and within 6 weeks, her marriage is destroyed

I see a couple of other brave individuals down there who went out on a limb to give this book a five-star rating, although I note that the vast majority of reviewers took Isabel Gillies to task for her inability to write. I must say I do not agree. I find this author/actress's style perfectly detailed and immensely readable. At her best, Gillies reminds me of Suzanne Finnamore on a softer, gentler day. She does make writing look easy, though, and I did finish the book feeling that Isable and I